Apparatus for washing and cleansing lined casks, barrels, and the like vessels.



PATENTED OCT. 23, 1906.

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u H. 0. RUSSELL. APPARATUS FOR WASHING AND CLEANSING LINED GASKS,BARRELS,

AND THE LIKE VESSELS.

APPLICATION rum) MAY 19, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT CHARLES RUSSELL, OF LONDON, ENGLAND. APPARATUS FOR WASHING ANDCLEANSING LINED CASKS, BARRELS, AND THE LIKE VESSELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 23, 1906.

Application filed May 19, 1903. Serial No. 157,779.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT OHAELEs RUSSELL, engineer, a subject of theKing of Great Britain, residing at 6 Duke street, Aldgate, in the cityof London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inApparatus for Washing and Cleansing Lined Casks, Barrels, and the LikeVessels, of which the following is a specification.

In practice it has been found that casks, barrels, and the like vessels(hereinafter referred to as casks lined with paraffin-wax, pitch, orother air and water tight lining material or composition cannot becleansed by the ordinary methods, as the hot water or steam usuallyemployed for washing casks rapidly destroys the lining material. Coldwater has been tried and found ineffective as a washing or scouringmedium for lined,

casks. Moreover, it has a disadvantageous hardening effect on the wax orother lining material and in some cases fixes the hop bottom or othersediment in or to the wax or lining.

The object of this invention is to provide a method and means forwashing lined casks without damaging the lining, while thor oughlyremoving at one operation all sedimentary matter, so that the inside ofthe cask is sweet and ready for use immediately after the washing.

According to this invention the lined casks are supplied with a measuredquantity of water (so as to about half fill the cask under treatment) ofa definite temperature below that of the melting-point of the lining,(preferably about 100 Fahrenheit,) and the spent hops or other sedimentin the cask formswith this tepid water a thick sludgy mass or scouringmedium. The cask is subjected to a simultaneous rotatory and rockingmotion, so that the contained measured quantity of tepid scouring mediumwill be dashed against the ends of the cask and swilled around. At

the same time the exterior of the cask is washed by jets of water orother suitable cleansing medium.

The apparatus employed for carrying out this invention comprises arocking bed for imparting the required rotatory and rocking motion tothe casks, perforated pipes and nozzles for supplying water to theexterior of the cask when on the rocking bed, vessels for containingmeasured quantities of water for cleansing various-sized casks, and atank in which hot and cold water are thoroughly mixed together andbrought to the desired temperature. The rocking bed is so constructedand arranged that without alteration or adjustment it will accommodatecasks of any capacity (from four and one-. half to seventy-two gallons)and of any ordi- 'nary bilge or curvature, and no brushes or otherextraneous means are required to keep the casks in position on the bedduring the rocking and rotating. Furthermore, the rocking movement willnot tend to displace the cask-hoops.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of thecask-washing apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan and Fig. 3 is a sectional endelevation, of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of one of thefour conoidal forms or frustums forming the rocking bed.

The same parts are lettered to correspond in all the figures of thedrawings.

The cask-washing apparatus shown in Figs. 1 to 3 consists of a suitableframe a, with in clined gauntrees b for the casks and with two parallelshafts c, mounted horizontally in suitable bearings in the frame a andgeared together, so as to rotate in the same direction. In the drawingsthe shafts c are shown each provided with s rocket-wheel c, which aregeared together y a chain 0 the power being derived from adriving-pulley 0 fast on one of the shafts. Each shaft 0 is fitted withany suitable number of pairs of conoidal forms or conoidal frustums orthe like (i d, eccentrically mounted on the .shafts and arranged so thatthe eccentricity of one member (1 of each pair is diametrically oppositeto that of the other, d, and the conoidal forms or conoidal frustums d dare similarly mounted and arranged in corresponding positions on theirrespective shafts c, and so also are the forms or frustums d d. Theconoidal forms or frustums d d are fitted with set-screws d or likemeans for securing them on their shafts c, and a cask is laid with itschimes resting on four conoid al forms or conoidal frustums d d i. 6.,on the conoidal surfaces of a pair on each shaft, as shown by the dottedlines in Fig. 2. The conoidal frustums d d are of such size andcurvature and are so arranged on their shafts as to be capable ofaccommodating any ordinary cask. By reason of the eccentric mounting ofthe conoidal forms or conoidal frustums d d the cask laid thereon willwhen the shafts c are rotated dip downward at its front and rear endsalternately and atthe same time will be rotated by the friction of theconoidal forms or conoidal frustums (Z (1 the curved surfaces (1 (seeFig. 3 of which prevent the cask from being thrown out of position offthe rocking-bed, while the rounded ends or shoulder d will prevent thecask from being jolted when tilted by the rotating conoidal forms orfrustums.

Above the conoidal frustums d d is located a pipe 6, supplied with Wateror other cleansing medium from a reservoir or other source of supply. Tothe pipe e is connected flexible hose or adjustable pipes e,communicating with a horizontal pipe e perforated on its under side andfitted with end pipes e having jets or nozzles e thereon for dischargingthe water or other cleansing medium onto the exterior of the cask-heads,the perforated pipe e discharging onto the staves of the cask as itrotates and rocks on the eccentric conoidal forms or frustums d (1. Anysuitable means for adjusting the perforated pipe e according to the sizeof the cask under treatment may be adopted. In Figs. 1 and 3 notched.racks 2 5 f are shown affixed to the frame a, into one or other of thenotches f of which the perforated pipe e is placed, so that the liquidissuing from the nozzles e, fixed on or to the end pipes 6 willdischarge directly upon the heads of the cask on the rocking bed.

After the cask has been sufficiently rocked and rotated it is rolledalong the gauntree b to a bed or rest, (not shown,) where the washwateror other medium is drained off and, if desired, further cleansing mediumsprayed or injected thereinto through the tap hole, thereby dischargingall sediment and other deleterious matter through the bung-hole of thecask.

A measured quantity of tepid water is ad mitted to each cask before it1s placed on the rocking apparatus, so as to form, with the hop andyeast sediment remaining therein, a thick sludgy mass and scouringmedium.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

An apparatus for rocking and rotating casks comprising four conoidalfrustums, two parallel shafts upon which the said frustums areeccentrically mounted in pairs, the eccentricity of one member of eachpair being diametrically opposite to that of the other member of thecorresponding pair, and means for rotating the shafts and consequentlythe frustums in the same direction.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in presence of twosubscribing witnesses, this 28th day of April, 1903.

HERBERT CHARLES RUSSELL.

Vitnesses:

GEO. J. B. FRANKLIN, W. J. NORWOOD.

